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Executive Director, American Press Institute

Twitter: @TomRosenstiel
One of the most recognized thinkers in the country on the future of news, Tom Rosenstiel is the author of 10 books, including three novels. Before joining the American Press Institute in January 2013, he was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, one of the five original projects of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. He was co-founder and vices chair of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

His first novel, Shining City (2017), about a supreme court nomination, was an NPR Book of the Year. His second, The Good Lie (2019), about a terrorist incident, was a Washington Post best seller. His third, Oppo, about a presidential campaign, was published in December 2019.

Among his seven books on journalism, politics and ethics is The Elements of Journalism: What News People Should Know and the Public Should Expect, co-authored with Bill Kovach, which has been tra

Biography

Before writing novels, Tom founded and for 16 years directed the Project for Excellence in Journalism, one of the five founding projects of the Pew Research Center. He was also a reporter and editor.

In his career as a journalist, press critic and media researcher, Tom has written about politics, campaigns, Congress, culture, technology, journalism, media and ethics and has lectured and consulted on journalism extensively in the United States and overseas.  He was press critic at the Los Angeles Times for a decade, a Washington correspondent for The Times, a commentator on media for MSNBC, and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek. He began his career as a reporter for Jack Anderson’s Washington Merry Go ‘Round in Washington. He also worked at the Peninsula Times Tribune and the Country Almanac in his hometown in Woodside, California. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

After nine years as executive director of the American Press Institute, a think tank on making news sustainable, he joins the University of Marylan

Tom Rosenstiel

Tom Rosenstiel

NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author, journalist
Known forExecutive director of the American Press Institute

Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic, researcher and academic. He is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He was for the previous nine years the executive director of the American Press Institute.[1][2] He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.[3] Rosenstiel was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.[4] His first novel, Shining City, was published by Ecco of HarperCollins in February 2017 and his second, "The Good Lie," in 2019.

A journalist for more than 30 years, Rosenstiel worked as a media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional cor

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